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Old 05-10-2008, 11:47 PM   #25
arlesya
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Originally Posted by Playbahnosh View Post
That is what I talked about back there. All I asked was, to talk about things, and what did I get? Insults, mockery and pushing. And now I'm the aggressive? Wow... I must've missed something...

English is not my mother language, I'm Hungarian. By far, I learned to speak English well, but because I'm not a native, I tend to slip on those little language elements. I can assure you, that I didn't meant that to be aggressive in any way. I was just saying, that it's difficult to have a conversation about THIS TOPIC with the majority of people, because they won't even consider talking about it (here obviously) saying, that it's a farce, a fraud, a myth, or simply bull****, mostly comparing Zeitgest to some fundamentalist propaganda or a work of a bunch of lunatics with too much free time on their hands. And people won't stop to think about what is the message of the two movies, because they fear, if they do, they'll become somekinda brainwashed, mindless slaves to some obscure cult or sect or whatever. See?

Saying that your text is aggressive - not you personally since I don't know you and would be weird from me to jump to that conclusion - does not mean that other people weren't. But we are responsible for our own words, regardless on who people take them - which I find pretty scary myself. You can't hear my voice while I write this and that's one of the reasons why some people say that “a text is a son without a father”.
English is not my mother language either, but I can see your English is very good. I don't think language itself is the issue, I think you should just read what you write in a more critical way and I mean this with the best intentions. For instance, your answer to me was also pretty aggressive when I was just starting a sort of debate with you about why people are "trolling" you so much. I believe this has more to do with how you said it than what you said.
I'm a very infuriated person, as I'm noticing you are also. A lot of emotions. And it's very hard to take away the aggressive emotion from a text or a speech when you feel very strong about it. Just today I had a very silly argument with my Aunt over a political issue and she couldn't see my point because I was being too emotional about it. And that is what I meant. Even when we don't mean doing it - I didn't even notice how emotional I was being - it still comes across. When you read something infuriated you feel like you can't even talk to the person or he/she may just attack you. And some just attack first. It is like a healthy debate can't happen. Not that it is true, but that's how it looks at first. My comment was never meant as an attack, sorry if I also write aggressively.
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